Update VB6 to VB.NET 2.0 Email Send

31 Oct 2006 3:20 PM

Li Pang

Hi,
I have following codes in VB6 for sending the email on a server installed
SMTP. It works fine. Now I want to update it with VB.NET 2.0 by using
..NET.Mail object.
VB6 code:
Dim myMail
Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
myMail.Subject = "Sending email with CDO"
myMail.From = "Testing"
myMail.To = "some***@yahoo.com"
myMail.TextBody = "This is a message."
myMail.Send
Set myMail = Nothing

VB.NET codes:
Dim myMail As New MailMessage
myMail.From = New MailAddress("Testing")
myMail.To.Add("some***@yahoo.com")
myMail.Subject = "Sending email with Net.Mail"
myMail.Body = "This is a message."
Dim client As New SmtpClient()
client.Host = [myservername]
client.Send(myMail)

I had an error when fetched .From property which is omited in VB6, I want to
know what I have to put there? If I run it from server, do I need to set host
property?
How to make it work properly?
Thanks in advance

31 Oct 2006 3:59 PM

Li Pang

I find the solution by myself.
From must be a valid email address
Host is server DSN name
and more important is the following line
client.DeliveryMethod = SmtpDeliveryMethod.PickupDirectoryFromIis

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"Li Pang" wrote:

> Hi,
> I have following codes in VB6 for sending the email on a server installed
> SMTP. It works fine. Now I want to update it with VB.NET 2.0 by using
> .NET.Mail object.
> VB6 code:
> Dim myMail
> Set myMail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")
> myMail.Subject = "Sending email with CDO"
> myMail.From = "Testing"
> myMail.To = "some***@yahoo.com"
> myMail.TextBody = "This is a message."
> myMail.Send
> Set myMail = Nothing
>
> VB.NET codes:
> Dim myMail As New MailMessage
> myMail.From = New MailAddress("Testing")
> myMail.To.Add("some***@yahoo.com")
> myMail.Subject = "Sending email with Net.Mail"
> myMail.Body = "This is a message."
> Dim client As New SmtpClient()
> client.Host = [myservername]
> client.Send(myMail)
>
> I had an error when fetched .From property which is omited in VB6, I want to
> know what I have to put there? If I run it from server, do I need to set host
> property?
> How to make it work properly?
> Thanks in advance
>
>

31 Oct 2006 3:59 PM

Rick

Yes, you need to specify Host because you could use any SMTP server so the
control needs to know specifically which one you want to use.

Same for From.

Rick

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> I had an error when fetched .From property which is omited in VB6, I want
> to
> know what I have to put there? If I run it from server, do I need to set
> host
> property?
> How to make it work properly?
> Thanks in advance
>
>